“The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.” PeopleIfsMenHumansWellsSaidIdeasSoulMightEarthHeavenLinesAnimalHellForeverCreationCriticsThis LifeRelatedAfterlifeAncestorApesLive ForeverFierySubversiveHell On EarthDeterrent Author:James Moore
“I entered high school she[ my mother] said, "Well, you're a teenager now, and comics are for kids, so you shouldn't read them anymore," and I went, "Oh, okay," and I gave away what, of course, would now be thousands of dollars worth of comics to the neighborhood kids.” WellsSaidKidsSchoolMotherCoursesHigh SchoolOkayDollarsTeenagerNeighborhood Author:Trina Robbins
“I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.” PeopleSaidIdeasWholeProblemYoungDarkKnowingHeardAliensTouchedNot KnowingSpooky Author:Andy Biersack
“One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.” PeopleWantSaidCrazyPrisonJailMisleadBeing CrazyBailHomies Author:Vince Staples
“So many bands write about the same s - -. It gets real boring after a while. I want to keep it fresh and sign about things like the birth of my daughter, about seeing the world- things that aren't always said in metal.” WorldWantWritingSaidRealSeeingBirthBandDaughterBoringMy DaughterMetalsGet RealSeeing The World Author:Mitch Lucker
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.” WayYearsSaidRealAmericaUsedCompanyHappeningsMetaphorReal LifeUsed To Be Author:Immortal Technique
“It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and a girl came up to me and said, "Man, the only people they talk about around here are Michael Jackson and you." It was pretty flattering to be considered in the same light as the king of pop in my area.” PeopleMenSaidLightGirlFunWalksKingsOne DayAreasPopsParksThrillersFlattering Author:Rick Ross
“I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.” PeopleIfsWritingSaidRealCareersPiecesChangedLike YouPaperExcitedTeenagerAccomplishedPens Author:Ice Cube
“I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."” MenTryingYearsSaidAgeGirlFoundHouseNamesGivenWorryHe ManBrotherCallingJokesStartingIceMy BrotherTwelveElevenHoodCubesNot WorryingToo Cool Author:Ice Cube
“People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.” PeopleSaidFightingComplexesNapoleon Complex Author:Chris Paul
“When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.” ThinkingYearsKindSaidDiesLaughingSuccessfulBeing SuccessfulBetter LifeOld YouHappier Life Author:Steve Wozniak
“He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.” WorldSaidJobsSellsBoardsSurplusElectronics Author:Steve Wozniak
“I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.” IfsThinkingShouldWellsLongSaidHardHard WorkLong TimePerformancesPaid Author:Michael Bloomberg
“One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.” IfsChildrenSaidGuyHurtDadOne DaySingingHotMy DadIt HurtsPotatoesHurt Me Author:Michael Jackson
“I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"” SaidFatherBoysCollegeSonDegreesMy SonMy BoysCollege Degree Author:Robin Williams
“I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold enough to believe in your vision. And there's a quote that really fits his particular energy. It says - they say don't go where the path may lead, but go where there's no path and leave a trail. I think that's exactly what Chuck did, you know. It's an inspiration to a lot of folks, not just musicians, but people everywhere.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMaySaidEnoughInspirationBeliefEnergyVisionPathParticularFitMusicianFolksConvictionBelieve In YouTrailsChuckBerriesDid You Know Author:Mos Def
“The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.” PeopleSaidProblemPartyCareersPoliticianRepublicanDemocratDividesVersusCartelsCareer Politicians Author:Ted Cruz
“What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.” SaidTwoSimpleTelling The TruthSimple Things Author:Ted Cruz
“One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."” WantSaidOne ThingDadConversationMy DadWant To Be Happy Author:Donald Glover
“I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.” SaidEyeLife IsEnjoyLaughingBehaviorIdiotTragicSense Of HumorGogol Author:Mel Brooks
“I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."” PeopleKnowsWantSaidShowsSpeakTypeSingingRapHookSpeak English Author:Pitbull
“[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.” SaidWarWantedWhiteRaceWhite SupremacySupremacyManson Author:Mark Steyn
“I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.” TryingSaidTodayLeftPoorRaceRichSpeechTiredAfrican AmericanIndianDividesAmerican Indian Author:Bobby Jindal
“When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'” WellsSaidHomeClassStudyComputerVideoEditing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“When I first met with agents, they said, "Okay, you're going to play plumbers and mechanics and bus drivers and farmers. Go."” FirstsSaidPlayMetsOkayAgentsDriversBusFarmersThey SaidMechanicPlumberBus Driver Author:Nick Offerman
“I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.” SaidCharacterFunBuildingFineMiserableCharacter Building Author:Diana Krall
“...I would be a liar and my fans would hate me if I said to them, 'Oh, we're perfect and everything is great.' We have situations just like everyone else. We're not out in public trying to kill each other, but it's real. We love each other.” IfsTryingSaidRealWould BeHatePerfectSituationFansLiarsLove Each OtherHate Me Author:Mary J. Blige
“In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'” IfsSaidDiesPayPlentyAbundanceCollectivesPeterHeadingsSelectedEpochRobbing Book:Selected Verse Source: Selected Verse
“He reminds me of Michael Jordan. "You look and they have similar games where they want to lead their team to victory, no matter if they have to shoot the ball every time or if they have to rebound or pass, they're going to find a way to win." I've always said that Kobe Bryant is the best scorer in our game today and he's definitely proving himself.” IfsWayWantLooksSaidMatterTodayGamesWinningTeamVictoryProveBallsJordanRebound Author:LeBron James
“Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.” FirstsBelieveSaidDivineAuthorityMassLatinSaviorSuperstitionsArrangementsObservingWarrantsObservance Author:Charles Spurgeon
“The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'” SaidWholeKidsCan DoEthicsPunkThey SaidLiteralDo It Yourself Author:Michael Stipe
“Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.” IfsMenWantSaidSupportDadSupport You Author:Warren Farrell
“I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'” MenYearsSaidMotherMountainGoodbyeMountain Man Author:Gigi Graham
“One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons” PersonsSaidRealityViewsWiseTaught Author:Thomas a Kempis
“I never know the right thing to say, especially during sex. After my first time, I said to the girl, 'That's it, I'm afraid'” KnowsFirstsSaidGirlSexFirst TimeRight ThingRight Thing To Say Author:Tom Deacon
“Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'” PeopleSaidGirlBirdEggsMumDarlingFluBird FluCadbury Author:Tom Deacon
“Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'” SaidDiesDiedBoundsBoatLaughedMissionaryCaptains Author:Vance Havner
“I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.” KnowsHeartSaidBookReasonReadingBrainWrittenTruth IsAuthorityClaimsToleranceAlways Believe Author:Stephen Fry
“According to the latest poll in the Washington Post, 63 percent of Americans said that so far they approve of President Bush. Not surprisingly, the other 37 percent are English teachers.” SaidPresidentTeacherPercentPostsPollsPresident BushEnglish Teacher Author:Conan O'Brien
“Michele Bachmann said she wants her three daughters to learn to shoot a gun. Mostly so they can put her campaign out of its misery.” WantSaidThreeDaughterGunMiseryCampaignsThree Daughters Author:Conan O'Brien
“Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans.” IfsShouldSaidIdeasAmericaOne ThingWallChinaGreat IdeaProvocativeCainGreat WallGreat Wall Of China Author:Conan O'Brien
“Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'” SaidWarAmericaCenturyMajorsRevolutionaryGeology18th CenturyRevolutionary War Author:Conan O'Brien
“Herman Cain said he wants people to know that there's more between his ears than pepperoni and pizza sauce. He says there's also a few napkins and crazy bread.” PeopleKnowsWantSaidCrazyEarsBreadPizzaSauceCainNapkins Author:Conan O'Brien
“George W. said he doesn't watch television. And, of course, well - the reason for that is the Clintons stole the White House satellite system.” WellsSaidReasonCoursesHouseWhiteWatchesTelevisionClintonWhite HouseSatellites Author:David Letterman
“Herman Cain said, starting today, if you buy into his 9-9-9 plan, he'll throw in a free 32-ounce soda.” IfsSaidTodayPlansStartingSodaCainStarting Today Author:David Letterman
“In an interview last night, Rick Perry criticized Mitt Romney for flip-flopping on the issues. Romney said that Perry has no idea what he's talking about. Then he added, 'But he does know what he's talking about.'” KnowsDoeSaidIdeasLastsNightTalkingIssuesNo IdeaInterviewsLast NightRomneyFlipFlopping Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Yesterday on CNN, Joe Biden said he hasn't made up his mind about whether he'll run for president in 2016. Which raises the question: 'Who was raising that question?'” MindMadeSaidRunningPresidentRaisesYesterdayCnnBiden Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact, he felt so bad for them, he gave himself a $10 million sympathy bonus.” SaidFactsFeltMillionsStreetsWallYesterdayFrustratedCeoBonusOccupy Wall Street Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.” SaidEnoughCompanyTaxesDollarsBillionsIrsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Jay Leno